Word: lukewarm
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...salute to National Newspaper Week, whose annual rituals of rededication are confined in most communities to lukewarm chicken luncheons and canned editorials, Maryland's Union News, Baltimore County's biggest weekly (circ. 12,000), decided this year to give readers a more piquant refresher course in press freedom. In a Page One editorial. Editor-Publisher W. Fen wick Keyser (Yale '35) confided that he put together a "front page which is by way of being a big joke to all of us fortunate people who enjoy the privileges of a free press." The joke: every news story...
...Singapore, which handles 75% of Malaya's business, and is separated from the new nation only by a half-mile-long causeway. Singapore, which is due to get local autonomy in 1958, would like to become part of Malaya-a prospect which leaves the Tengku at best lukewarm. Singapore's energetic Chief Minister Lim Yew Hock (who a fortnight ago ordered the arrest of 35 of the colony's top Communists and offered paid one-way trips to Red China for anyone who wants to go) has done an effective job of combatting the Reds in Singapore...
...Knock, Jules Romains' astringent comedy on the triumph of medicine over the modern mind, received a barely lukewarm performance at the play's opening Tuesday night in the Tufts' Arena...
...crusade,' we can only sigh and reflect that we, like him, are also Adam's children, defective and half-blind ... It would ill become us to be harsh or cynical toward a man whose zeal and sincerity, even in a misguided cause, might shame many a lukewarm Catholic. Rather let us hope and pray that God may lead him to the One Faith that is worthy of all man's dedication...
...Tony Yates dies at last, after guzzling lukewarm champagne from the bottle, but not before he has shown himself tougher even than a U.S. visitor who thoughtfully retired to the more civilized climate of Texas. U.S. readers will appreciate Author Ronan's narrative gusto, his authentic, sometimes stomach-turning local color, and the chance to compare the U.S. and down-under forms of the western. Some differences spring to mind at once: Australian cowboys are called stockmen; they use 21-ft. whips rather than lariats; the noble redman of the plains is an ignoble blackfellow, i.e., aborigine; most important...